The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.
The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.
Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.
[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.
Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies
I believe that when you find problems, you should also find solutions.
I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.
Laugh, if thou art wise.
Your freedom to be you includes my freedom to be free from you.
Not only are facts and theories in constant disharmony, they are never as neatly separated as everyone makes them out to be.